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Protest at Auckland District Court 4th February 2011
February 18th, 2011
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Auckland Court Protest
February 6th, 2011
Dakta ZippyHere’s a nice vid of Friday morning’s protest outside the Auckland District Court. Cheers to Vinny Eastwood for the upload:
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Give It Away
February 5th, 2011
Dakta ZippyVinny Eastwood talks to Rick Simpson, the man who open-sourced high THC hemp oil and gave it away. Nothing upsets the US establishment more than deviation from the norm. Have a listen to Simpson’s tale of persecution and prosecution at the hands of the hydra-headed bald eagles.
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Where’s the Harm?
January 29th, 2011
Dakta ZippyCut and pasted from here:
Ex-EastEnders star James Alexandrou was caught smoking cannabis by the tabloids when he left the soap. Now he wants to find out the truth about the most popular illegal drug in Britain, see the lengths people will go to get it and discover exactly where it comes from. In the first of two programmes, James looks at the effects of the drug on the streets of Britain, meeting a 17-year-old who smokes weed with his parents and a mum-of-three who uses cannabis to keep her emotions in check. He meets people who are growing cannabis illegally for themselves and goes out on patrol with a police drug squad as they clamp down on large-scale cannabis growers. He also travels to California, the first state in America to license cannabis for medicinal use. -
Armistice Day rally coverage
January 24th, 2011
Dakta Zippy
Better late than never, here’s a summary of media stories covering the Armistice Day rally at Parliament:
TV3
Cannabis campaigners light up at Parliament (Video here)
Police take ‘peaceful approach’ to cannabis campaigners (Video here)The Sydney Morning Herald and National Business Review both ran the NZPA story, but the NBR had nicer pictures
NZ Herald did one on the parliament rally and one on the Wellington police station gig.
Tracy Watkins covered the protest for the DomPost.
Radio New Zealand’s Checkpoint program spoke in detail on the matter.
Further out into the blogosphere, the Armistice Day rally and later smoke-out of the police station made Toke of the Town and ChronicCandy.com.
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Dakta Green on the Vinny Eastwood Show
January 22nd, 2011
Dakta ZippyThe Daktory founder Dakta Green was interviewed for the Vinny Eastwood Show today. MP3 download here or stream it here.
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4:20 News
January 21st, 2011
Dakta Zippy# Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish points to another victim of the war on drugs. Be warned, graphic violence:
Scott Morgan captions this disturbing video:
The victim in this case, Todd Blair, brandished a golf club in terror as armed men stormed his home in the night. We’ll never know for sure if he realized they were police. But we do know that only a small amount of drugs were found in the raid that took his life.
# Closer to home, Kiwi-born banker turned drug double agent turned writer Keith Bulfin talks to Close Up about the horrors of the black market in the Mexican Drug Wars.
# Jacob Sullum at Reason.com reviews The Fall and Rise of Prohibition; When Booze Was Banned But Pot Was Not.
# And finally, some Bob Marley, in his own words:
More here.
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Selling NZ by the Pound
January 21st, 2011
Dakta Zippy“Write drunk. Edit sober.” – Hemingway
Pardon, dear readers, for the sporadic blogging over the last few weeks. There are many reasons why this has been so, but the main one is that I haven’t been drinking. Sure, there’s been the occasional beer here and there, catching up with old mates, but none of the long, contemplative solo drinking that fuels the really original content (moderated of course with chain-smoking rollies and puffing on the old pipe). Read the rest of this entry »
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Making protesting fun
January 11th, 2011
Dakta ZippyThere is a protest this Saturday in Auckland at the intersection of Balmoral and Dominion Roads from 4 to 5pm. Come along and make some noise for reform of our stupid drug laws. Later that night, there’s a Magic Mary fundraiser at the Dog’s Bollix. Check out Facebook for details of the protest and the gig. See you there!
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Why is Hemp unemployed?
January 10th, 2011
Dakta ZippyHemp gets a bad rap:
